A jihadist is said to have ordered assassinations in Syria. In 2021 he was released because the court missed a deadline. Now he has been convicted. The monitoring of the terrorist suspect until he was arrested was expensive for taxpayers.
From the celebrated taekwondo state champion, a 34-year-old Chechen became the alleged butcher of the Islamic State – at least according to the indictment. Commissioned by “jihadist star” and hate preacher Mirsad O. (picture above). But the jury at the Vienna Criminal Court – the trial had been delegated from Graz to Vienna – ruled that Tupal I.’s participation in bloody murders could not be proven The verdict was therefore relatively mild: 6.5 years unconditional imprisonment for membership in a terrorist organization. The IS fighter, who protested in the process that he had only visited the grave of his fallen brother-in-law, also accepted the verdict. Now the explosive thing: the martial artist was still at large until recently. He had to be released from the Graz prison in May 2021 – apparently due to the failure of the judiciary. Because the maximum period of detention of two years was exceeded. “Intensive investigations were necessary.” Of course, nobody wants the buck. “All instances were quick,” says the spokeswoman for the Vienna Regional Court, Christina Salzborn. “Intensive investigations were necessary, the indictment comprises 201 pages,” emphasizes Hansjörg Bacher, spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office in Graz 1.3 million euros for a total of 59,000 (!) working hours. In the meantime he has finally started his detention …
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